SUPPORT USERS TOWARDS MORE CONSCIOUS FOOD CONSUMPTION HABITS: A CASE STUDY

AbstractDesign for Sustainability is a research area based on a multidisciplinary approach, which has become increasingly important in recent years. Great attention is paid to the design of products that can impact on users' behaviours, through embedded smart technologies, e.g. Internet of Things (IoT). In fact, IoT systems are able to “dialogue” with the users, supporting the identification of any misbehaviour, and suggesting more sustainable ones.This paper presents a research aiming at supporting users towards more conscious food consumption in their daily life to reduce food waste. As a case study, it has been developed an interactive system in which chicken eggs are used as main communication element. Indeed, the environmental footprint of the egg industry is very heavy, and eggs are one of the main wasted food. The interactive system consists of a physical product, an eggs tray, integrating sensors and actuators for handling the interaction with users. It is accompanied by an interactive application for monitoring eggs consumption, displaying eggs waste statistics, and an Augmented Reality part for children, aimed to improve their awareness about food waste and the impact on their food habits through an “edutainment” approach.

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The Impact of Social Norms on Suboptimal Food Consumption: A Solution for Food Waste

Journal of International Food & Agribusiness Marketing ◽

10.1080/08974438.2018.1533511 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

pp. 30-53

Author(s):

Isadora do Carmo Stangherlin ◽

Marcia Dutra de Barcellos ◽

Kenny Basso

Keyword(s):

Social Norms ◽

Food Consumption ◽

Food Waste ◽

The Impact

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Environmental Impact Assessment of Food Waste Management Using Two Composting Techniques

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12041595 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (4) ◽

pp. 1595 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Aisha Al-Rumaihi ◽

Gordon McKay ◽

Hamish R. Mackey ◽

Tareq Al-Ansari

Keyword(s):

Global Warming ◽

Anaerobic Digestion ◽

Environmental Impact ◽

Food Waste ◽

Fossil Fuels ◽

Impact Category ◽

Windrow Composting ◽

The Impact ◽

Total Impact

Food waste is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and therefore global warming. As such, the management of food waste can play a fundamental role in the reduction of preventable emissions associated with food waste. In this study, life cycle assessment (LCA) has been used to evaluate and compare the environmental impact associated with two composting techniques for treating food waste using SimaPro software; windrow composting and the hybrid anaerobic digestion (AD) method. The study, based on a 1 tonne of food waste as a functional unit for a case study in the State of Qatar, concludes that anaerobic digestion combined composting presents a smaller environmental burden than windrow composting. The majority of the emissions generated are due to the use of fossil fuels during transportation, which correspond to approximately 60% of the total impact, followed by the impact of composting with 40% of the impact especially in terms of global warming potential. Environmental assessment impacts were the highest in windrow composting for the acidification impact category (9.39 × 10 − 1 kg SO2 eq). While for AD combined composting the impact was highest for the human toxicity impact category (3.47 × 10 kg 1,4 − DB eq).

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Streamlined Assessment to Assist in the Design of Internet-of-Things (IOT) Enabled Products: A Case Study of the Smart Fridge

Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design ◽

10.1017/dsi.2019.379 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 3721-3730

Author(s):

Elies Dekoninck ◽

Francesca Barbaccia

Keyword(s):

Food Waste ◽

Tracking System ◽

Secondary Data ◽

Grocery Shopping ◽

User Behaviour ◽

Brick And Mortar ◽

And Shifts ◽

The Impact ◽

Critical Aspects

AbstractThis paper shows how designers of IoT-enabled products can assess the environmental impacts associated with the user behaviour and the service system around the product. High-quality secondary data and a user-behaviour survey were able to highlight critical aspects of a smart fridge's design. A streamlined LCA looked at just the in-use phase of the product within 4 PSS scenarios. The system included: the effects on the food waste; grocery shopping methods; fridge door openings; and how the users interact with the smart fridge features. The results show that a smart fridge as within a PSS can reduce the impact on the environment (GWP of 21,700 kg CO2-eq within the ‘average PSS scenario’ and GWP of 23,100 kg CO2-eq for the normal fridge with ‘typical scenario’). The product's increased emissions are counteracted by the reduction in GWP due to: reduction in food waste; and shifts from brick-and-mortar grocery shopping to e-commerce. Therefore some of the critical aspects of the product's design that are most influential on the environmental impact of an IoT fridge are: the design of the web-browsing capability; and the use-by date tracking system.

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The Impact of Religiosity and Food Consumption Culture on Food Waste Intention in Saudi Arabia

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13116473 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (11) ◽

pp. 6473

Author(s):

Ibrahim Elshaer ◽

Abu Elnasr E. Sobaih ◽

Mansour Alyahya ◽

Ahmed Abu Elnasr

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

Food Consumption ◽

Food Waste ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Research Question ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽

Consumption Culture ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is among the top food-wasting countries worldwide, despite it being considered a religious society. Hence, an important question has emerged “to what extent and by what mechanism can religiosity influence food waste intention?”. This research answers this research question and examines the direct impact of both religiosity and food consumption culture on food waste intention as well as the indirect impact through the constructs of theory of planned behavior. For this purpose, a pre-tested self-administered questionnaire was collected from 1135 restaurant customers in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The results of structural equation modeling (SEM) using Analysis of a Moment Structures (AMOS) showed a very weak negative influence of religiosity on food waste intention. However, food consumption culture has had a high positive significant influence on food waste intention. The results also showed that attitude towards behaviors, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control fully mediate the relationship between religiosity and food waste intention. On the other side, they were found to partially mediate the relationship between food consumption culture and food waste intention. The results have several implications for policy-makers, scholars, and restaurant practitioners.

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Study on the Impact of Historic District Built Environment and Its Influence on Residents’ Walking Trips: A Case Study of Zhangzhou Ancient City’s Historic District

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17124367 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (12) ◽

pp. 4367

Author(s):

Fen Zeng ◽

Zhenjiang Shen

Keyword(s):

Built Environment ◽

Research Area ◽

Historic District ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Longitudinal Methods ◽

The Us ◽

Recreational Walking ◽

Asian Context ◽

The Impact

Walking maintains an indisputable advantage as a simple transport mode over short distances. Various situations have shown that when staying in a walk-friendly built environment, people are more likely to walk and interact with their surroundings. Scholars have reported some evidence of the influence of neighbourhood environments on personal walking trips. Most existing studies of the correlation between the built environment and walking, however, have been conducted in the West and are cross-sectional, which leaves a gap in addressing the causality between built environments and walking under the intervention of regeneration measures. This study takes a historic district of a mid-sized city in China as the research area and reports the changes in the traditional residential district’s built environment caused by the implementation of urban regeneration. In this paper, we use physical and perceptual indicators to measure the walkability of the built environment. We identify the changed content of the built environment’s walkability and the change of residents’ walking behaviour through longitudinal and quasi-longitudinal methods. The conclusion shows that the implementation of a regeneration project of the historic district has greatly changed perceived walkability, which has significantly promoted residents’ recreational walking trips, especially among the population of middle-aged and elderly people in the district. The conclusion that the built environment’s change promotes recreational walking is contrary to the research performed in sprawling Western contexts such as in the US, and it provides a meaningful supplement for research on the topic in an Asian context.

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The impact of smart technologies: A case study on the efficiency of the manual assembly process

Procedia CIRP ◽

10.1016/j.procir.2020.05.260 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 97 ◽

pp. 412-417

Author(s):

Maja Turk ◽

Matevž Resman ◽

Niko Herakovič

Keyword(s):

Assembly Process ◽

Manual Assembly ◽

Smart Technologies ◽

The Impact

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Green Marketing’s Roles in Sustainability and Ecopreneurship. Case Study: Green Packaging’s Impact on Romanian Young Consumers’ Environmental Responsibility

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11030873 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 873 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Mihaela Kardos ◽

Manuela Rozalia Gabor ◽

Nicoleta Cristache

Keyword(s):

Consumer Behaviour ◽

Research Area ◽

Green Marketing ◽

Environmental Responsibility ◽

Lack Of Information ◽

Raising Awareness ◽

Young Consumers ◽

Social And Environmental Responsibilities ◽

The Impact

In contemporary society, which is preoccupied with sustainability issues, green marketing highlights a new dimension of the economic, social, and environmental responsibilities of businesses. This article aims to provide an integrative vision on green marketing roles in informing, raising awareness, educating, and changing consumer behaviour towards sustainability and ecopreneurship and to highlight the results of research regarding PlantBottle® green packaging’s impact on the environmental responsibility of young consumers. The research was conducted based on a survey, and data were processed with statistical methods. The research results validate a set of hypotheses regarding: Romanian consumers’ lack of information leading to environmental responsibility; the impact of environmental information and awareness on green responsible behaviour; and the need to intensify efforts towards environmental responsibility. By the novelty of the research, which was conducted in a country that has rather recently become preoccupied with sustainability issues, the paper fills in a gap in a relatively limited research area: countries where green culture is developing and can become a landmark with implications for managers, educators, and the scientific community.

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Role Of Micro-Finance To The Empowerment of Women: A Case Study Of Karachi

Pakistan Journal of Applied Social Sciences ◽

10.46568/pjass.v3i1.290 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 15-35

Author(s):

Nida Baig ◽

Mohammad Rizwan-ul-Hassan ◽

Shafiq ur Rehman

Keyword(s):

Family Support ◽

Research Area ◽

Primary Data ◽

Women Empowerment ◽

Her Family ◽

Explanatory Variables ◽

Binary Dependent Variable ◽

The Impact

This paper is an attempt to analyze the impact of micro financing to induce empowerment to those women who avail the facility of micro-credit in Pakistani society. The study examines the various business activities of women in Karachi who got capital through micro-financing and their socioeconomic status in family as well as society. The women empowerment as dependent variable has been used with three explanatory variables which are amount of micro-finance credit, age of the women and her family support to run her business. Logit Model is applied to assess the level of women empowerment because of binary dependent variable. Primary data has been collected through a questionnaire and in this way this is the first study in this research area using this methodology. Findings of the study indicates a positive correlation of all the variables to cause empowerment of women while family support to a woman has statistically significant impact to a woman. The study indicates the possibility of an improvement of society wellbeing and women empowerment if the direction of micro finance is focused towards women while the study is limited to Karachi region.

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